Microsoft serial mouse driver xp

How to install serial mouse on 98SE and XP? Share More sharing options Followers 0. Recommended Posts. Posted August 1, Hi there. What can I do? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options Curiously I noticed that before XP re-installed the serial mouse driver I could still use the serial mouse but as before it only worked left-right.

Therefore the serial mouse driver is really having no effect!!!??? Logically considering the symptoms you would think one of the rollers inside the mouse is gummed up but I have checked and everything inside the mouse is fine - and the mouse works perfectly on the older PC. It sounds to me like you have a defective serial mouse. Inside the serial mouse are 2 sensors, one sensor goes up and down, the other is from left to right. It sounds to me like one of the sensors connected to the rollers went bad.

You might want to try and fix it. If you have no luck fixing it, good luck trying to find a brand new serial mouse. I looked everywhere when I tried to buy a serial mouse. I went to staples, officemax, officedepot, best buy, circuit city, etc. No one carries the serial mouse. I have encountered this Windows bug myself. All ports on the computer will be shown. Do this for all ports on the computer. This should hopefully work as an universal solution. Lundin Lundin k 35 35 gold badges silver badges bronze badges.

Thanks for the suggestion. I'd prefer to avoid any user intervention by changing the protocol on our device so as not to confuse Windows, but if that doesn't work out then at least I have an official workaround and "bug" acknowledgment to refer to. I've implemented tinman's suggestion along with repackaging our data as 7-bit ASCII now and have yet to see the problem again, though to be honest it never did appear all that frequently.

Because Windows assumes that this ancient Microsoft mouse has a certain baudrate. I have encountered the problem when using a faster baudrate than , the data can suddenly get interpreted as something coming from the mouse.

When that happens The mouse will move all over the screen at the speed of light, clicking everywhere! Anything can happen. I wouldn't risk that, I would use the tool Microsoft recommends in that link. Thankfully we're using a FTDI chip with a virtual serial port driver instead of a real serial port. So there's no risk of the data being mangled through an invalid baud rate setting. Jon: on Windows 8. David Refoua David Refoua 3, 1 1 gold badge 28 28 silver badges 51 51 bronze badges.

That may work for you personally, but it does not address the problem of the original question, which requires a solution that works for end users and not only developers willing to modify the system configuration. ChrisStratton True, and I may not have posted this as an answer but I merely wanted to provide a quick solution for devs like me Googling this issue. I used a ms delay after serial connection to prevent Windows detecting my device as a mouse, instead.

Worked for me just great! Thx — Paul Allsopp. ChrisStratton This is not a developer fix, this is a fix for anyone. Users should have a basic understanding of what Device Management is.

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